Grants for the Arts

Annual Report 2015 / 2016 Contents

Grants for the Arts: A Continuing Legacy of Support 3 for Arts and Culture Grants for the Arts FY 2015-2016 Budget 4 Grants for the Arts Programs 5 Annual Grants to San Francisco Arts Organizations 6 Cultural Centers, Civic Events, Regranting Programs 43 Arts and Tourism — A Partnership with the San Francisco 44 Convention and Visitors Bureau San Francisco Arts Monthly 44 SF/Arts.org 45 Other Programs 45

Grants for the Arts 401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 321 San Francisco, CA 94102 T: 415.554.6710 F: 415.554.6711 www.sfgfta.org

GFTA Staff Kary Schulman, Director Renee Hayes, Associate Director Valerie Tookes, Senior Finance and Operations Manager Khan Wong, Senior Program Manager Kara Owens, Operations and Program Associate

GFTA Citizens Advisory Committee Clara Chun Daniels Stanley Ellicott Donna Ficarrotta Dan Goldes Linc King Ebony McKinney Jackie Nemerovski (Emeritus) Cover, clockwise, from top: Jason Rodrigues Epiphany Productions’ Trolley Dance, Tere Romo with dancers, from left, Ong Nitipat Polchoi, Megan Lowe and Colin Epstein. Charles Roppel Photo: Andy Mogg • “Suite J-Town: The Ruth Williams Art of Resilience,” First Voice’s performance events celebrating the history of Japantown. Photo: Courtesy First Voice • Aleah Bradshaw at Youth Annual Report: San Francisco Study Center Speaks’ 2015 Teen Poetry Slam. Photo: Lise Stampfli Torme, designer, Marjorie Beggs, editor Bethanie Hines • John Santos Sextet and guest Jose Roberto Hernandez with Soltrón band members at Acción Latina’s 34th © 2016, Grants for the Arts Annual Encuentro del Canto Popular. Photo: Russell Diaz Annual Report 2015 / 2016 Grants for the Arts: A Continuing Legacy of Support for San Francisco Arts and Culture

Photo: Jack Hutch Dear Friends, San Francisco has a long history as a world-class center for arts and culture. Maintaining such a high level of artistic achievement, particularly in this time of rapid social transformation, requires a continued investment in the community that creates our diverse and dynamic arts scene. Grants for the Arts has been providing such investment for 54 years, making it one of the nation’s oldest civic-funded arts patrons. As our city has continued to grow and change, Grants for the Arts has given essential support to hundreds of San Francisco- based arts organizations. In the coming decades, we look forward to their continued excellence in the cultivation of the deep and varied artistic resources that help make San Francisco both a top destination for visitors, and a wonderful place to live.

Naomi Kelly City Administrator

Grants for the Arts 2015 / 2016 Annual Report 3 FY 2015-2016 budget

Support Services $342,000 2.5%

Special Grants $605,000 4.5% Arts and Tourism $628,780 4.6% Administration $905,727 6.7%

General Operating Support $11,049,369 81.7%

Support services line item includes: Northern Community Loan Fund for support services to nonprofit organizations seeking office, rehearsal and performance or exhibition space in the city; Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center Festival Grants Program to support artists for technical and production assistance, in addition to an artist stipend; Center for Cultural Innovation for the Creative Capacity Fund; Theater Bay Area to support the CA$H Program; San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music to support the Musical Grants Program; Southern Exposure to support the Alternative Exposures grant program; Queer Cultural Center to support Creating Queer Community; and insurance for civic events including the Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration, Memorial Day, Veterans Day and the New Year’s Fireworks.

Special Grants includes support to the San Francisco Film Commission, Fleet Week, City Guides and the Arts Commission Gallery.

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Annual Grants to San Francisco Arts Organizations rants for the Arts (GFTA) provides a stable, dependable base of support for G the city’s arts and cultural organizations that meet its funding criteria. In fulfilling its mission of “promoting the city through support of the arts,” GFTA annually funds nonprofit arts and cultural organizations that help promote San Francisco as a destination for regional, national and international visitors. Grants for the Arts is committed to supporting the broadest spectrum of the San Francisco arts community.

GFTA’s relationship with the city’s nonprofit groups is unique in terms of national municipal support of the arts because funding is not linked to spe- cific projects or productions. Instead, the annual grant program is designed to provide a consistent source of funds for general operating expenses. Grants for the Arts funding levels are determined on a progressive basis, with smaller budget organizations receiving a larger percentage of their budgets and larger groups a smaller percentage from the Fund. San Francisco’s largest cultural institutions are given important sustaining funds in recognition of their world-renowned artistic contributions and economic importance to the city. The majority of the funds (nearly 70%) goes to the small and midsize organizations of all disciplines and cultures.

On the following pages are the nonprofit arts and cultural organizations that received Grants for the Arts annual support for the 2015-2016 fiscal year. New groups are demarcated in red.

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Clockwise from top: PUSH Dance Company artists, from left, Ashley Gayle, Kao Vey Saephanh, Elizabeth Sheets and Katerina Wong. Photo: Matt Haber • Antoine Hunter, Rashad Pridgen, Travis Rowland and Matthew Wickett in Zaccho Dance Theatre’s “Dying While Black and Brown.” Photo: Kegan Marling • Performances by Gamelan Sekar Jaya, left, and Tiruchitrambalam at San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival/World Arts West, 2016. Photos: RJ Muna

$1,730,540 Dance

ABADA Capoeira San Francisco is Capacitor dance company’s work is Chinese Cultural Productions dedicated to teaching, promoting and inspired by technology and science, features the Lily Cai Chinese Dance preserving the Brazilian dance form incorporating multimedia, martial Company, which presents classical, capoeira. arts and acrobatics. folk and modern dances based on the $32,020 $17,500 traditions of China’s various ethnic 3221 22nd Street 645 Haight Street, #11 groups. San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94117 $27,350 415.206.0650 415.308.1952 Center, www.abada.org www.capacitor.org Landmark Bldg. C-353 San Francisco, CA 94123 Alonzo King LINES Ballet develops Carolina Lugo’s & Carole Acuna’s 415.474.4829 new work blending classical ballet, Ballet Flamenco is recognized as www.lilycaidance.org ethnic and modern dance; tours one of the top Flamenco and Spanish regionally, nationally and interna- dance companies in the Americas, Dance Brigade, a contemporary tionally. representing a diversity of cultures dance theater company, also produc- $102,110 from around the globe and presented es and presents a variety of programs 26 Seventh Street, 5th Floor in television, dinner theater, caba- at Dance Mission Theater, a venue in San Francisco, CA 94103 ret venues, opera and symphonic the Mission District. 415.863.3040 formats. $61,560 www.linesballet.org $5,000 3316 24th Street 925 Mission Street, Suite 109 San Francisco, CA 94110 Amy Seiwert’s Imagery is a contem- San Francisco, CA 94103 415.826.4401 porary ballet company founded by 415.933.9391 www.dancebrigade.org choreographer Amy Seiwert in 2004 www.carolinalugo.com to express her belief that the language Dancers’ Group presents local danc- of classical ballet has relevance for the Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance ers’ work in admission-free public current time. The group has received tours nationally and internationally, performances; serves as a fiscal a number of local dance awards, is presents new and traditional works sponsor for local artists; publishes routinely lauded by critics, and per- as well as international festivals, a monthly newspaper; administers forms an annual season locally and and runs the Chhandam School, the regranting programs; and supports also tours. largest kathak institution in North the exchange of information about $11,820 America, with sister schools in performances, arts spaces and artistic 613 Peralta Avenue Boston, Toronto, Mumbai and opportunities via online and email San Francisco, CA 94110 Kolkata. platforms. 415.305.8900 $43,310 $61,190 www.asimagery.com 2325 Third Street, Suite 320 44 Gough Street, Suite 201 San Francisco, CA 94107 San Francisco, CA 94103 Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers, a 415.333.9000 415.920.9181 woman-centered dance ensemble, is www.kathak.org www.dancersgroup.org dedicated to fostering cross-cultural collaboration that examines difficult contemporary issues. $18,900 3574 22nd Street

San Francisco, CA 94114 Following page: Dancers Brendan 415.602.3777 Barthel and Norma Fong in Robert www.abdproductions.org Moses’ Kin’s “SILT.” Photo: RJ Muna

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Deborah Slater Dance Theater/Art Hope Mohr Dance creates, presents Lenora Lee Dance gives artistic voice of the Matter presents work dealing and fosters contemporary dance to the experiences of Asian Americans with topical issues, combining orig- at the intersection of critical think- through the creation and presenta- inal dance, theater and music with ing and the body through two core tion of large scale interdisciplinary multimedia images. components: to engage in rigorous dance works integrating movement, $12,940 creative inquiry that manifests in music, video projection and text that 3288 21st Street, #71 artistic excellence, and to deepen tell stories of family, community and San Francisco, CA 94110 critical discourse around dance. transformation in the face of the chal- 415.267.7687 $5,000 lenges of building a life in America. www.artofthematter.org P.O. Box 225237 $11,820 San Francisco, CA 94122 44 Montgomery Street, #2310 Epiphany Productions/Sonic Dance 415.867.5570 San Francisco, CA 94104 Theater is an interdisciplinary com- www.hopemohr.org 415.816.9376 pany dedicated to the artistic vision www.lenoraleedance.com of dance experimenter Kim Epifano, Jess Curtis/Gravity Inc., a “research who collaborates with diverse artists and development vehicle” for live LEVYdance, a modern dance compa- to produce original works. performance, focuses on creating ny, ignites its audience’s awareness $16,500 an engaging and highly physical of shared human experience through 925 Mission Street, Suite 109 entertainment that addresses ideas the art of dance. San Francisco, CA 94103 of substance and relevance to a $20,460 415.647.1443 broad public. 19 Heron Street www.epiphanydance.org $24,050 San Francisco, CA 94103 849 Divisadero Street, #4 415.701.1300 Flyaway Productions dance compa- San Francisco, CA 94117 www.levydance.org ny produces site-specific as well as 415.435.7549 traditional venue dances, often using www.jesscurtisgravity.org Margaret Jenkins Dance Company is aerial apparatus. dedicated to the making and touring $19,000 Joe Goode Performance Group is a of new work, international exchange, 1068 Bowdoin Street modern dance company stretching and community programs. San Francisco, CA 94134 the traditional boundaries of dance $66,700 415.672.4111 and theater. 507 Polk Street, #320 www.flyawayproductions.com $47,740 San Francisco, CA 94102 499 Alabama Street #150 415.861.3940 Garrett Moulton Productions con- San Francisco, CA 94110 www.mjdc.org temporary dance company strives to 415.561.6565 be an ongoing creative force in the www.joegoode.org Mark Foehringer Dance Project is a Bay Area, presenting annual home classical ballet company that creates seasons as well as touring. both dynamic and lyrical dances that $28,090 often contain comedic elements. 351 Shotwell Street $20,670 San Francisco, CA 94110 1388 Haight Street, #28 415.864.6716 San Francisco, CA 94117 www.janicegarrettanddancers.org 415.640.2784 www.mfdpsf.org

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Na¯ Lei Hulu I Ka We¯kiu, a modern PUSH Dance Company performs San Francisco Ballet, universally hula troupe translated as “the many vibrant contemporary dances that acknowledged as one of the world’s feathered wreaths at the summit provide audiences with an oppor- preeminent ballet companies, brings held in high esteem,” produces an tunity to examine issues of identity together the finest international annual season and performs to audi- and intersecting cultures based on a artists and cutting-edge productions ences across the country. philosophy that pure movement and with a passionate and knowledge- $46,730 intellect can coexist. able audience, both locally and 153 Bradford Street $5,000 around the globe. San Francisco, CA 94110 P.O. Box 191974 $407,900 415.647.3040 San Francisco, CA 94119 455 Franklin Street www.naleihulu.org 415.439.9806 San Francisco, CA 94102 www.pushdance.org 415.861.5600 ODC/San Francisco is a major mod- www.sfballet.org ern dance company presenting work RAWdance, a company committed by its three founding choreographers to driven, visceral movement, ex- San Francisco Ethnic Dance in local seasons, plus national and plores the power and vulnerability of Festival/World Arts West is a festi- international tours. the human body; it produces its own val of dance forms from around the $123,390 work and the CONCEPT series, a world presented annually in June 351 Shotwell Street works-in-progress salon that features at the Yerba Buena Center for the San Francisco, CA 94110 the work of many local dance artists. Arts. The festival, which has featured 415.863.6606 $11,800 thousands of local artists, was creat- www.odcdance.org 105 Sanchez Street ed by Grants for the Arts in 1978. San Francisco, CA 94114 $217,110 Presidio Performing Arts 415.686.0728 Fort Mason Center Foundation Presidio Dance www.rawdance.org 2 Marina Boulevard, Bldg.D #230 Theatre creates cultural change, San Francisco, CA 94123 global dialogue and human connec- Robert Moses’ Kin is a multiethnic 415.474.3914 tion through the artistry of dance, dance ensemble performing innova- www.worldartswest.org adhering to the philosophy that tive modern dance works. dance can deepen human connec- $25,370 San Francisco Hip Hop Dance tions, share the collective wisdom 870 Market Street, Suite 567 Festival is an international festival of worldwide cultures, and reinforce San Francisco, CA 94102 featuring dance “crews” from all over compassion among performers and 415.252.8384 the United States, Canada and parts audiences alike. www.robertmoseskin.org of Europe. $11,820 $22,200 P.O. Box 29066 P.O. Box 411492 San Francisco, CA 94141 San Francisco, CA 94141 415.561.3958 415.297.9740 www.presidiodance.org www.sfhiphopdancefest.com

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Scott Wells & Dancers, a contempo- Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco, Zaccho Dance Theatre creates and rary dance ensemble, creates highly one of the city’s oldest companies, is a presents performance work that energetic work created as a result of professional ensemble that performs investigates dance as it relates to touch, impact or collision with other dances with roots in Spain as well as place, focusing on making dances dancers. from Latin America, featuring both that use natural, architectural and $13,900 local and international artists. cultural environments as points of 1805 Divisadero Street $12,400 departure for movement exploration San Francisco, CA 94115 952 Carolina Street and narrative. 415.931.8648 San Francisco, CA 94107 $40,030 www.scottwellsdance.com 415.826.1305 1777 Yosemite Avenue, #330 www.theatreflamenco.org San Francisco, CA 94124 Smuin Ballet carries on the legacy 415.822.6744 of Tony- and Emmy-award winner Yaelisa & Caminos Flamencos is www.zaccho.org Michael Smuin by bringing the joy of dedicated to producing Flamenco dance to new and existing audiences programs with a fresh, contemporary in the Bay Area through innovative approach, reflecting the contempo- performances of uncompromising rary Flamenco Nuevo movement. quality. $26,000 $113,160 26 Seventh Street, 5th Floor 44 Gough Street, Suite 103 San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94103 510.531.9986 415.556.5000 www.caminosflamencos.com www.smuinballet.org

Chin-chin Hsu in “Fire of Freedom” by Lenora Lee Dance. Photo: Robbie Sweeny

Grants for the Arts 2015 / 2016 Annual Report 11 FY 2015-16 budget Literary Arts

Clockwise from top: Sarah O’Neal at Youth Speaks’ 2015 Teen Poetry Slam. Photo: Bethanie Hines • RADAR Productions’ Drag Queen Story Hour featuring Persia, Library. Photo: Virgie Tovar • From the Best of PlayGround Festival, Rebecca Pingree, Carla Pantoja, Jomar Tagatac and Dodds Delzell in William Bivins’ “Symmetrical Smack-Down,” direct- ed by Jim Kleinmann. Photo: mellopix.com

$277,620 12 Grants for the Arts 2015 / 2016 Annual Report Literary Arts

Center for the Art of Translation PlayGround, a leading Bay Area RADAR Productions presents a promotes international literature playwright incubator, supports the monthly reading series featuring and translation to connect readers, development of new writers and emerging queer writers, as well as students and audiences with writing new plays through commissions, events featuring more well-known from around the world, and makes co-productions, a Young Playwrights talent at venues throughout the city. great literature accessible to readers Project and the annual Best of $21,080 and communities through a literary PlayGround Festival. 1953 McAllister Street event series, publications and an $26,440 San Francisco, CA 94115 education program. 268 Bush Street, #2912 415.216.9641 $20,700 San Francisco, CA 94104 www.radarproductions.org 582 Market Street, Suite 700 415.992.6677 San Francisco, CA 94104 www.playground-sf.org 415.563.2463 Small Press Traffic Literary Arts www.catranslation.org Playwrights Foundation supports Center promotes and supports exper- the work of contemporary American imental writers of all ages, ethnicities, City Arts and Lectures presents sev- playwrights by producing the socioeconomic and cultural back- eral series of lectures, conversations annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival, grounds through readings, dialogues and other literary activities with well- as well as other events and programs and commissioning work. known authors and cultural figures. throughout the year. $8,320 $55,720 $37,870 1111 Eighth Street 1955 Sutter Street 1616 16th Street, Suite 350 San Francisco, CA 94107 San Francisco, CA 94115 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.551.9278 415.563.2463 415.626.2176 www.sptraffic.org www.cityarts.net www.playwrightsfoundation.org Youth Speaks, through the intersec- Litquake, an annual literary festival, Poetry Center, based at San tion of arts education, youth devel- presents an eclectic range of Bay Area, Francisco State University, presents opment practices, civic engagement national and international authors in poets and writers drawn from the full strategies and quality artistic pre- a series of readings, performances spectrum of contemporary literature. sentation, creates safe spaces that and “cross-media literary $25,020 challenge youth to find, develop, happenings.” 1600 Holloway Avenue publicly present and apply their $26,030 San Francisco, CA 94132 voices as creators of societal change. 57 Post Street, Suite 604 415.338.2227 $56,440 San Francisco, CA 94104 www.sfsu.edu/~poetry 1663 Mission Street, Suite 604 415.750.1497 San Francisco, CA 94103 www.litquake.org 415.255.9035 www.youthspeaks.org

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Clockwise from top: Eric Garcia, StormMiguel Florez, Shawna Virago and Sean Dorsey at the 2015 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival. Photo: Lydia Daniller • Buffy Sainte Marie at the American Indian Film Institute’s 2015 motion picture awards gala. Photo: Courtesy AIFI • Still from “On the Bride’s Side,” 2014, Arab Film Festival. Photo: Marco Garofalo © GINA Films

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3rd I S.F. International South Asian Berlin and Beyond, presented by Roxie Theater promotes and pre- Film Festival is committed to pro- the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, serves the art of film and encourages moting diverse images of South is America’s leading festival of new independent filmmaking and artistic Asians through independent film and celebrated films from Germany, experimentation through daily film with monthly screening events and Austria and Switzerland. screenings, specialty film festivals, the annual SF International South $11,100 self-produced series, live events, Asian Film Festival. 530 Bush Street, Suite 204 educational programs and visual arts $21,290 San Francisco, CA 94108 exhibitions. 992 Valencia Street 415.263.8760 $21,210 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.goethe.de/sanfrancisco 3117 16th Street 415.824.3890 San Francisco, CA 94103-3327 www.thirdi.org Center for Asian American Media 415.431.3611 presents CAAMFEST, an annual Asian www.roxie.com American Indian Film Festival is American film festival. the oldest international festival $60,520 San Francisco Cinematheque pres- showcasing films and videos by 145 Ninth Street, Suite 350 ents year-round screenings of art film and about Native Americans. San Francisco, CA 94103 classics, neglected films, and works $40,300 415.863.0814 by local and national avant-garde 333 Valencia Street, Suite 322 www.asianamericanmedia.org filmmakers. San Francisco, CA 94103 $14,800 415.554.0525 Frameline presents the annual San 55 Taylor Street www.aifisf.com Francisco International LGBT Film San Francisco, CA 94102 Festival, offers free screenings of 415.552.1990 Arab Film Festival showcases socially relevant films to the local www.sfcinematheque.org independent films with Arab themes community, makes completion grants to enhance understanding of Arab to LGBT filmmakers, and distributes San Francisco Film Society presents cultures and experiences. their work nationally. the annual San Francisco Interna- $22,770 $69,690 tional Film Festival and a year-round 3739 Balboa Street, Suite 125 145 Ninth Street, Suite 300 array of exhibition, education and San Francisco, CA 94121 San Francisco, CA 94103 filmmaker services programs. 415.564.1100 415.703.8650 $124,840 www.aff.org www.frameline.org 39 Mesa Street, Suite 110 The Presidio Artists’ Television Access supports Queer Women of Color Media Arts San Francisco, CA 94129 the production and exhibition of Project creates, exhibits and distrib- 415.561.5000 work by new artists in video, film, utes new films that reflect the lives of www.sffs.org visual arts and multimedia perfor- queer women of color and presents mances. the free, annual Queer Women of $12,500 Color Film Festival. 992 Valencia Street $27,050 San Francisco, CA 94110 59 Cook Street 415.824.3890 San Francisco, CA 94118 www.atasite.org 415.752.0868 www.qwocmap.org

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San Francisco Independent Film San Francisco Silent Film Festival San Francisco Transgender Film Festival produces a season that in- presents four days of a diverse selec- Festival builds a strong and diverse cludes “IndieFest,” a February festival tion of films made during the silent queer community by screening films of screenings and events dedicated era with live musical accompaniment and videos that promote transgender to the presentation of independent at the Castro Theatre. visibility by challenging the main- film, video and animation; “DocFest,” $49,870 stream media’s negative stereotypes, a May documentary film festival; and 145 Ninth Street, Suite 230 and by providing transgender media “Another Hole in the Head,” a horror/ San Francisco, CA 94103 artists opportunities to reach their fantasy film festival held in June. 415.777.4908 intended audiences. $34,990 www.silentfilm.org $6,600 2240 16th Street, Suite 107 375 27th Street, #A San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94131 415.820.3907 415.420.1630 www.sfindie.com www.sftff.org

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the world’s oldest and largest independent Jewish film festival, promotes awareness and pride in the diversity of the Jewish experience and people. $59,540 145 Ninth Street, Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.621.0556 www.sfjff.org

Castro Theatre marquee announces the 3rd i San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival, 2015. Photo: Najib Joe Hakim

16 Grants for the Arts 2015 / 2016 Annual Report Grants for the Arts Programs Multi-Arts

Clockwise from top left: MEDIATE Art Group’s “Submerged Turntables,” by Evan and Karina Holm, at the California Academy of Sciences. Photo: William Hollander • Dezi Solèy in a Queer Rebel Productions’ program at African American Art & Culture Complex. Photo: Robbie Sweeny • Rhodessa Jones (front) and cast in Cultural Odyssey’s Birthright? piece entitled “Woman Holding Bowl.” Photo: David Wilson

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509 Cultural Center is dedicated California Institute of Integral CubaCaribe preserves and promotes to enriching the cultural life of the Studies’ Performing Arts Series, the vibrant cultural and artistic Tenderloin neighborhood with mul- housed within Public Programs heritage of Cuba, the Caribbean and ticultural programming featuring per- & Performances (PPAP), has as its the wider African diaspora through forming artists and gallery exhibits. mission to uplift and engage Bay classes, performances and exhibi- $39,230 Area communities by offering a local tions, including an annual festival 1007 Market Street showcase of global performing arts each spring. San Francisco, CA 94103 and educational events. $11,400 415.255.5971 $15,550 3316 24th Street www.luggagestoregallery.org 1453 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94110-3803 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.826.4441 Arab Cultural and Community 415.575.6176 www.cubacaribe.org Center, established in 1973 as a com- www.ciis.edu/public_programs munity-based organization for the Cultural Odyssey creates, produces growing Arab immigrant population CounterPulse is building a move- and presents original interdisciplin- in the Bay Area, presents an array of ment of risk-taking art that shatters ary and multidisciplinary works root- activities at its facility and off-site, assumptions and builds community, ed in African American music, dance including the Arab Cultural Festival providing space and resources for and theatrical traditions. and Arab Women’s Conference. emerging artists and cultural inno- $37,900 $5,000 vators, and serving as an incubator PO Box 156680 2 Plaza Street for the creation of socially relevant, San Francisco, CA 94115-6680 San Francisco, CA 94116 community-based art and culture. 415.292.1850 415.664.2200 $44,810 www.culturalodyssey.org www.arabculturalcenter.org 80 Turk Street San Francisco, CA 94102 Duniya Dance and Drum Company Asian Improv aRts supports the 415.626.2060 performs and teaches traditional and creation, production, performance www.counterpulse.org unique blends of dance and percus- and recording of new Asian American sion-based music from Punjab, India, work in music, poetry and dance. Croatian American Cultural Center and Guinea, West Africa, in a range $33,600 fosters the arts and culture of Croatia, of program formats, from traditional 44 Montgomery Street, Suite 2310 Central and Eastern Europe, and the proscenium shows to performances San Francisco, CA 94104 Balkans; GFTA supports its public and dance lessons at San Francisco 415.908.3636 events, including the Croatian clubs and restaurants, and presen- www.asianimprov.org Heritage Festival, San Francisco tations at free public festivals and Tamburitza Festival, Hungarian parades. The company also tours and Brava! For Women in the Arts Dance House and the Festival of teaches classes at schools throughout produces, co-presents and presents a the Mandolins. the West Coast, and travels annually variety of theater, music, spoken word $37,500 to West Africa. and film activities by local and tour- 60 Onondaga Avenue $11,820 ing artists in its renovated 370-seat San Francisco, CA 94112 1832 Castro Street Mission District venue. 510.649.0941 San Francisco, CA 94131 $71,850 www.croatianAmericanWeb.org 415.401.5948 2781 24th Street www.duniyadance.com San Francisco, CA 94110 415.641.7657 www.brava.org

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First Voice produces, presents and Genryu Arts promotes, presents Kearny Street Workshop produces, sponsors performing arts projects and participates in Japanese and presents and promotes the work of that explore the Asian American Japanese American culture through Asian American artists in all disci- experience through storytelling and taiko (Japanese drumming) and other plines. Asian-influenced jazz expressions traditional and contemporary music $16,450 that blend past and present. and dance forms. 1246 Folsom Street, #100 $27,700 $12,300 San Francisco, CA 94103 41 Parsons Street, Suite A 2345 Bush Street, #12 415.503.0520 San Francisco, CA 94118 San Francisco, CA 94115-0282 www.kearnystreet.org 415.221.0601 415.420.3151 www.firstvoice.org www.genryuarts.org Kulintang Arts, popularly known as Kularts, presents contemporary and Footloose Dance Company produces Humanities West presents multidis- tribal Pilipino arts. and presents a mixed format of origi- ciplinary programs in the arts and $20,000 nal theater, dance, music, improvisa- humanities that complement lectures 474 Faxon Avenue tional comedy and film/video. on history, economics, politics, lit- San Francisco, CA 94112 $13,750 erature and the arts with live perfor- 415.239.0249 P.O. Box 885393 mances of music, drama and dance. www.kularts.org San Francisco, CA 94188 $30,450 415.920.2223 P.O. Box 546 The Lab SF, an interdisciplinary www.ftloose.org San Francisco, CA 94104 organization, supports the develop- 415.391.9700 ment and presentation of new visual, Fort Mason Center provides several www.humanitieswest.org performing, media and literary art. well-equipped venues for diverse $18,770 small and midsize groups from all Intersection for the Arts, a broad- 2948 16th Street performing arts disciplines, subsi- based, community-focused group San Francisco, CA 94103 dized by GFTA funding to the Fort presents theater, performance art, 415.864.8855 Mason Center Presents series. literary arts, visual arts and music in www.thelab.org $45,930 its exhibition/performance space in Fort Mason Center the Central Market/South of Market The Long Now Foundation initiates 2 Marina Boulevard, Bldg. A district. and inspires conversations about San Francisco, CA 94123 $54,700 long-term thinking through year- 415.345.7500 925 Mission Street, Suite 109 round live programs that explore the www.fortmason.org San Francisco, CA 94103 theme of “longer, slower, better” and 415.626.2787 build community through new ideas Fresh Meat Productions creates, www.theintersection.org in music, art and creativity. presents and tours multidisciplinary $5,000 transgender arts programs, includ- Jewish Community Center of San Fort Mason Center, Building A ing performance, film and the work Francisco presents lectures from San Francisco, CA 94123 of resident company Sean Dorsey renowned authors, newsmakers and 415.561.6582 Dance. thought leaders along with multidis- www.longnow.org $27,050 ciplinary performances, including 375 27th Street, Apt. A dance, theater, music, film and family San Francisco, CA 94131-2011 events. 415.355.0071 $41,250 www.freshmeatproductions.org 3200 California Street San Francisco, CA 94118 415.292.1200 www.jccsf.org

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The Marsh annually presents hun- OX, founded in 2008 by performance SAFEhouse Arts (formerly SAFE- dreds of diverse productions in its artist Mica Sigourney, presents arts house for the Performing Arts) multivenue space in the Mission. events exploring themes of family, presents multidisciplinary arts per- $59,580 lineage, history, race and class issues, formances; provides low-cost space 1062 Valencia Street transgender issues and the signifi- and technical support for emerging San Francisco, CA 94110 cance of drag. performers to self-produce with a fo- 415.282.6024 $11,200 cus on performance art, LGBT groups www.themarsh.org 1310 Mission Street and contemporary dance; and pro- San Francisco, CA 94103 duces the West Wave Dance Festival. MEDIATE Art Group showcases 347.243.7439 $25,750 contemporary sound, installation and www.cargocollective.com/mi- 1 Grove Street performance works primarily through casigourney San Francisco, CA 94107 its Soundwave Festival, a summer- 415.518.1517 long sound and arts festival that Queer Rebel Productions explores www.safehousearts.org draws audiences to unconventional the histories of LGBT people of color, environments for site-specific multi- builds community, fosters intergen- San Francisco Center for the Book is disciplinary performance experiences erational dialogue, and has launched the only center in the Western United and is the culmination of a curated experimental film, poetry and music States for the creation and display of two-year program. programs. various forms of “book art,” including $5,000 $5,000 fine printing, book structures, letter- P.O. Box 170305 762 Fulton Street ing and more. San Francisco, CA 94117 San Francisco, CA 94102 $55,160 415.484.6278 415.308.9883 375 Rhode Island Street www.me-di-ate.net www.queerrebels.com San Francsico, CA 94103 415.565.0545 ODC Theater, a multipurpose venue, Red Poppy Art House serves as a www.sfcb.org offers a broad range of local, national performance venue, art gallery, and and international artists in contem- community resource, hosting more San Francisco Performances pres- porary and traditional dance, music, than 100 events per year, including ents internationally acclaimed and performance and poetry. concerts, art exhibits, workshops and emerging artists in recitals, chamber $53,240 artist residencies. music concerts, jazz and dance pro- 351 Shotwell Street $14,160 grams. San Francisco, CA 94110 2698 Folsom Street $139,050 415.863.6606 San Francisco, CA 94110 500 Sutter Street, Suite 710 www.odcdance.org www.redpoppyarthouse.org San Francisco, CA 94102 415.398.6449 www.performances.org

Following page: Red Tipped Worms from Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu’s “MU,” a production of First Voice, costumes by Beaver Bauer. Photo: Courtesy First Voice

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Society for Art Publications of the Stern Grove Festival Association Z Space, a hub for artists and Americas presents cross-cultural and presents free, high-quality perfor- audiences to revel in the creation, multidisciplinary visual arts exhibits, mances for all Bay Area residents and development and production of musical performances and public visitors; provides paid opportunities outstanding new work, commissions, forums to expand the audience for for professional artists and perform- develops, presents and produces a contemporary art, particularly that of ing groups in the summer months; full season of new works from a international artists. serves diverse audiences by present- variety of disciplines including $30,450 ing a season of varied musical and theater, dance, music, performance 1007 General Kennedy Avenue, performance genres and artists; and art and new media. Suite 209 enhances San Francisco’s renown as a $55,160 San Francisco, CA 94129 world center of arts and culture. 499 Alabama Street, #450 415.398.7229 $71,430 San Francisco, CA 94103 www.meridiangallery.org 832 Folsom Street, Suite 1000 415.626.0453 San Francisco, CA 94107 www.zspace.org 415.252.6253 www.sterngrove.org

Left: OX production of “Birthday or Boats,” commissioned by the FRESH Festival, 2015. Photo: Robin Sweeney • Tanya Bello’s Project. B. performance at SAFEhouse Arts’ West Wave Dance Festival, 2015. Photo: Suzanne Bronk

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Clockwise from top: New Orleans trumpeter Christian Scott at SFJAZZ. Photo: Ronald Davis • Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony. Photo: Bill Swerbenski • Loco Bloco drummers at Dia de los Muertos event, 2014. Photo: Courtesy Loco Bloco

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Acción Latina presents an annual Center for New Music fosters con- Door Dog Music Productions sup- fall concert series of music from temporary music’s growth by giving ports and promotes music from var- throughout Latin America and the practicing artists access to profes- ious ethnic traditions and produces United States. sional resources and expertise, and the annual World Music Festival. $19,370 by providing them with opportunities $39,100 2958 24th Street to share knowledge and explore new 1007 General Kennedy Avenue San Francisco, CA 94110 ideas. Suite 215 415.648.1045 $5,000 San Francisco, CA 94129 www.accionlatina.org/encuentro 55 Taylor Street 415.561.6571 San Francisco, CA 94102 www.sfworldmusic.org American Bach Soloists presents 415.275.2466 and records historically informed, www.centerfornewmusic.com Earplay, a contemporary music virtuoso instrumental and vocal ensemble, performs American music performances of Baroque and early Chamber Music San Francisco with an emphasis on works by Bay classical music. produces a concert series at Herbst Area and lesser-known composers. $47,220 Theatre that features high-profile $13,750 44 Page Street, Suite 403 local and touring artists. 560 29th Street San Francisco, CA 94102 $32,120 San Francisco, CA 94131 415.621.7900 1314 34th Avenue 415.585.9776 www.americanbach.org San Francisco, CA 94122 www.earplay.org 415.759.1756 Bay Area Omni Foundation for www.chambermusicSF.org Fifth Stream Music creates, per- the Performing Arts presents forms, records and teaches music concerts featuring a variety of world- Cypress String Quartet champions that blends Pan-Asian and African renowned and emerging acoustic works by living American composers, American sensibilities in a season guitarists who explore the stylistic exploring the classic string quartet that includes an annual free co-pro- range of the instrument. repertoire and uncovering unjustly duced show at the Yerba Buena $24,440 overlooked works. Gardens Festival; performances/ PMB 1, 236 West Portal Avenue $44,390 collaborations with numerous Bay San Francisco, CA 94127 44 Page Street, Suite 400 Area artists, groups and venues; and 415.242.4500 San Francisco, CA 94102 national and international tours. www.omniconcerts.com 415.500.2150 $7,400 www.cypressquartet.com 1830 Sutter Street Bay Area Rainbow Symphony pro- San Francisco, CA 94115 vides a safe, supportive environment Del Sol Performing Arts Organiza- 510.220.4807 for musicians of all sexual orienta- tion presents concerts, does educa- www.fifthstreammusic.org tions, gender identities and gender tional outreach, and commissions expressions, and performs works by new works and recordings, height- Golden Gate Men’s Chorus, a 40- LGBTQ Composers; produces con- ening awareness of contemporary plus voice ensemble, performs a certs in the spring, summer and fall; chamber music and making the art repertoire that ranges from classical and is one of seven LGBTQ orchestras form more accessible. programs to fully staged cabaret in the United States, and one of only $26,270 productions. 12 worldwide. 754 46th Avenue $19,000 $9,400 San Francisco, CA 94121-3202 116 Eureka Street 2261 Market Street, #178A 415.374.0074 San Francisco, CA 94114 San Francisco, CA 94114 www.delsolquartet.com 415.668.4462 415.578.4852 www.ggmc.org www.bars-sf.org

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Golden Gate Performing Arts Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francis- MSA/People in Plazas presents free presents the San Francisco Gay Men’s co celebrates all sexual orientations summer concerts by local musicians Chorus in a home season of various and gender identities, providing an in various San Francisco outdoor productions and more than 30 com- open and artistic environment for locations. munity events with classical, pop and singers committed to musical excel- $19,900 holiday repertoires. lence. 1346 Stevenson Street, B202 $51,510 $8,570 San Francisco, CA 94103 398 Eleventh Street, 3rd Floor 584 Castro Street, #486 415.350.7071 San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94114 www.peopleinplazas.org 415.865.3650 415.861.7067 www.sfgmc.org www.lgcsf.org Musical Traditions, home of the Paul Dresher Ensemble, creates, produces Kronos Quartet commissions, Loco Bloco brings together tradition- and tours works of new opera/music performs and records contemporary al rhythms, movements and aesthet- theater; commissions and performs string works, tours internationally for ics of the African diaspora within new chamber music; collaborates five months each year, and collabo- Latin America and fuses them with with other artists; and supports their rates with artists from all over the contemporary urban styles of music, creative work with technical, financial world. dance and theater. and advisory assistance. $83,790 $38,070 $51,710 1242 Ninth Avenue 3543 18th Street, #20 333 Valencia Street, Suite 301 San Francisco, CA 94122 San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.731.3533 415.864.5626 415.558.9540 www.kronosquartet.org www.locobloco.org www.dresherensemble.org

Lamplighters Music Theatre, one of Magnificat, an ensemble of voices New Century Chamber Orchestra, a the top Gilbert and Sullivan compa- and instruments, produces an annual Grammy Award-nominated ensem- nies in the world, performs an annual concert series of 17th century works ble of string musicians, brings a fresh season of light opera classics. and provides instrumental support to approach to classical music. $59,680 Bay Area professional and communi- $50,930 469 Bryant Street ty choirs. 665 Third Street, Suite 345 San Francisco, CA 94107 $17,860 San Francisco, CA 94107 415.227.4797 453 30th Avenue 415.357.1111 www.lamplighters.org San Francisco, CA 94121 www.ncco.org 415.625.2942 Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Inc. www.magnificatbaroque.com Noe Valley Chamber Music Series produces a concert series featur- presents monthly Sunday afternoon ing a repertoire of masterpieces by Melody of China, Inc. is an instru- concerts that feature well-known and traditional composers and modern mental ensemble performing Chinese emerging chamber music ensembles. classical works. music that reflects the synergy be- $11,700 $16,200 tween ancient cultural tradition and 1021 Sanchez Street 1 Topaz Way the modern American experience. San Francisco, CA 94114 San Francisco, CA 94131 $16,640 415.648.5236 415.617.5223 2720 41st Avenue www.nvcm.org www.leftcoastensemble.org San Francisco, CA 94116 415.640.9825 www.melodyofchina.org Following page: Eki Shola at New Music Open Mic, Center for New Music, January 2016. Photo: Meerenai Shim

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Noontime Concerts is a free weekly Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra San Francisco Boys Chorus musical- lunchtime classical music series held recreates 17th and 18th century mu- ly trains boys, 5 to 13, who regularly at Old Saint Mary’s Cathedral. sic on original instruments in local, perform in concerts throughout the $16,390 national and international concerts. Bay Area, sing with the San Francisco 660 California Street $118,200 Opera and Symphony, and tour San Francisco, CA 94108 414 Mason Street, Suite 606 internationally. 415.777.3211 San Francisco, CA 94102 $64,970 www.noontimeconcerts.org 415.252.1288 333 Hayes Street, Suite 116 www.philharmonia.org San Francisco, CA 94102 Old First Concerts presents afford- 415.861.7464 able, year-round performances of Pocket Opera performs Donald www.sfbc.org classical and cutting-edge chamber Pippin’s witty original English transla- and recital repertoire by emerging tion of operas in an intimate, cham- San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, and mid-career Bay Area professional ber format. Northern California’s oldest profes- musicians, as well as visiting profes- $38,700 sional chamber orchestra, presents sionals from around the world. 469 Bryant Street classical, contemporary and commis- $22,700 San Francisco, CA 94107 sioned works that reflect the diverse 1751 Sacramento Street 415.972.8930 music and cultural traditions of San Francisco, CA 94109 www.pocketopera.org America’s past and present. 415.474.1608 $36,890 www.oldfirstconcerts.org Rova:Arts is a saxophone quartet that P.O. Box 191564 explores musical possibilities through San Francisco, CA 94119-1564 Opera Parallele is dedicated to the commissioned works with other art- 415.692.5297 professional development, perfor- ists presented at annual concerts. www.sfchamberorchestra.org mance, commissioning and recording $14,870 of contemporary chamber opera. 333 12th Street San Francisco Chanticleer is an all- $21,650 San Francisco, CA 94103 male chorus acclaimed for its artistry 50 Oak Street 415.487.1701 and versatility that performs locally, San Francisco, CA 94102 www.rova.org nationally and internationally. 415.503.6279 $121,800 www.ensembleparallele.com San Francisco Bach Choir is an 44 Page Street, Suite 604 auditioned volunteer choir providing San Francisco, CA 94102 Other Minds presents an avant-garde Bay Area concerts focused particularly 415.252.8589 music festival featuring composers on the music of J.S. Bach, his contem- www.chanticleer.org and artists from around the globe poraries and predecessors, and on in concerts, workshops and panel rarely heard music of the Renaissance San Francisco Choral Artists is a discussions; operates an extensive and baroque periods. chamber ensemble dedicated to the online new music archive; presents $35,500 performance of choral masterpieces various special new music events; 2443 Filmore Street, #195 of all eras, styles and regions. and releases albums on its CD label. San Francisco, CA 94115 $11,300 $41,560 415.922.6562 PMB 344, 601 Van Ness Avenue, #E 55 Taylor Street www.sfbach.org San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.979.5779 415.934.8134 www.sfca.org www.otherminds.org

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San Francisco Choral Society, a San Francisco Friends of Chamber San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom 200-member community choir, Music offers a year-round variety of Band, the first openly gay music specializes in large compositions for concerts featuring small ensembles organization in the United States, chorus and orchestra. performing baroque, classical, new, performs both marching and concert $32,020 jazz, and creative music, including its band repertoire throughout the Bay 236 West Portal Avenue, Suite 775 signature annual event, SFMusic Day Area and on tour. San Francisco, CA 94127 Live + Free. $18,100 415.566.8425 $11,920 584 Castro Street, #841 www.sfchoral.org 135 Main Street, Suite 1140 San Francisco, CA 94114-2594 San Francisco, CA 94105 510.823.3931 San Francisco Conservatory of 415.710.0551 www.sflgfb.org Music, a fully accredited music www.sffcm.org college, produces numerous public San Francisco Live Arts presents a events including year-round student San Francisco Girls Chorus provides series of performances, primarily at and faculty concerts and community an intensive, international-caliber St. Cyprian’s Church, that ranges from service performances. choral music performance and music to theater to performance art. $57,580 education program for more than $7,560 50 Oak Street 400 girls and young women from all 2097 Turk Street San Francisco, CA 94102 cultural and economic backgrounds. San Francisco, CA 94115 415.503.6230 $92,650 415.454.4665 www.sfcm.edu 44 Page Street, Suite 200 www.noevalleymusicseries.com San Francisco, CA 94102-5986 San Francisco Contemporary Music 415.863.1752 San Francisco Opera, a world- Players, the oldest new music en- www.sfgirlschorus.org renowned grand opera company, semble outside the East Coast, uses presents annual seasons of classic performances, collaborative proj- San Francisco Guzheng Music and contemporary works featuring ects, commissions, and educational Society presents concerts featuring international artists, and offers young outreach activities to help audiences the guzheng, a type of flat harp, and artist professional training programs, discover musical repertoire that is other ancient Chinese instruments. free community concerts, and educa- new to them — and to use these $4,570 tional activities. experiences as ways to better under- 450 2nd Avenue $667,000 stand, interact with, and enjoy their San Francisco, CA 94118 301 Van Ness Avenue lives and our world. 415.668.8111 San Francisco, CA 94102 $40,100 www.guzheng.org 415.861.4008 55 Taylor Street www.sfopera.com San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco Jazz Organization 415.278.9566 presents world-class live jazz concerts San Francisco Symphony, acknowl- www.sfcmp.org year-round, including the annual San edged as one of the best orchestras in Francisco Jazz Festival, SFJAZZ Spring the United States, programs a nine- Season and the free, outdoor SFJAZZ month concert season, numerous Summerfest Series. free educational and community $148,450 activities, and tours nationally and 201 Franklin Street internationally. San Francisco, CA 94102 $639,600 415.398.5655 Davies Symphony Hall www.sfjazz.org San Francisco, CA 94102 415.552.8000 www.sfsymphony.org

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sfSound is dedicated to the creation, Voices of Music, an ensemble of up to Volti is a professional vocal ensem- promotion and support of live con- 30 multi-instrumentalists and vocal- ble dedicated to commissioning and temporary music performances at the ists who perform renaissance and ba- performing new music, primarily by intersection of the Bay Area’s new mu- roque chamber and orchestral music, American composers. sic establishment and experimental introduces new audiences of all $25,450 underground, and produces the ages to early music, combining P.O. Box 15576 annual San Francisco Tape Music historically informed performance, San Francisco, CA 94115-0576 Festival. unique collaborations and 415.771.3352 $5,500 consummate artistry. www.voltisf.org 55 Taylor Street $10,700 San Francisco, CA 94102 127 Downey Street 415.759.9041 San Francisco, CA 94117 www.sfsound.org 415.260.4687 www.voicesofmusic.org

Cypress String Quartet, from left, Cecily Ward, Tom Stone, Jennifer Kloetzel and Ethan Filner, performs final concerts in June 2016 after 20 years together. Photo: Basil Childers

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Clockwise from top: Bella Warda in “Bitterenders” by Hannah Khalil, Golden Thread Productions’ 2015 ReOrient Festival. Photo: David M. Allen • We Players’ “Ondine,” Carly Cioffi and Ava Roy co-directors, 2015. Photo: Stacy Davis • African-American Shakespeare Company’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” directed by Becky Kemper. Photo: Lance Huntley

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42nd Street Moon is a theater com- American Conservatory Theater, Circo Zero, founded in 2001 by Keith pany that celebrates the scripts considered one of the top regional Hennessy, makes live performances and scores of uncommon, rarely theaters and actor-training conserva- sparked by current and historic social performed 20th century Broadway tories in the United States, produces realities, particularly around queer musicals, presented in an intimate a 10-month season of plays ranging identity, with interdisciplinary and theater with live music and without from world classics to contemporary experimental work rooted in contem- amplification. premieres. porary dance and performance, and $58,350 $344,500 drawn from circus, theater, music, 601 Van Ness Avenue, #E3-621 30 Grant Avenue, 7th Floor visual and conceptual art. San Francisco, CA 94102 San Francisco, CA 94108 $9,400 415.255.8205 415.834.3200 2842 Folsom Street www.42ndstmoon.org www.act-sf.org San Francisco, CA 94110 415.842.2273 African-American Shakespeare BATS Improv presents a variety www.circozero.org Company produces classical works of improvisational theater from with a strong cultural perspective, “Theatresports” to improvised Crowded Fire Theater Company providing minority artists and their Shakespeare and Broadway musicals. produces poetic, bold work, inno- communities opportunities to view $41,510 vative in structure, that is created by these works in a manner that is inclu- Fort Mason Center, B350 new and contemporary artists who sive of their cultural heritage. San Francisco, CA 94123 address the diverse political and $23,710 415.474.6776 x.4 social concerns of its audiences. 762 Fulton Street, Suite 306 www.improv.org $21,460 San Francisco, CA 94102-4119 870 Innes Avenue 415.762.2071 x8 Bindlestiff Studio, founded in 1989 San Francisco, CA 94124 www.african-americanshakes.org as a multidisciplinary theater space, 415.255.7846 emerged as a home for Filipino artists www.crowdedfire.org Afro Solo Theatre Company pro- in 1997, reflecting and celebrating the motes and presents the experiences diverse values, traditions and histo- Custom Made Theatre Company per- of African Americans and people ries of Filipino and Filipino American forms a repertoire consisting mainly from the African Diaspora in solo cultures through artistic expression of works by established playwrights performances and the visual and and community engagement. with a small but consistent level of literary arts. $5,000 output from emerging writers and $8,490 P.O. Box 190205 regional premieres at its permanent 762 Fulton Street, Suite 307 San Francisco, CA 94119 home in Union Square. San Francisco, CA 94102 415.255.0440 $14,430 415.771.2376 www.bindlestiffstudio.org 533 Sutter Street www.afrosolo.org San Francisco, CA 94102 Campo Santo is an award-winning www.custommade.org theater ensemble that develops and performs culturally diverse work us- ing the collaborative power of theater to create broader community. $25,370 925 Mission Street, Suite 109 San Francisco, CA 94103 Following page: Eddie Lopez as Koko in American Conservatory Theater’s “The 415-626-2787 Unfortunates.” Photo: Kevin Berne www.theintersection.org

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The Cutting Ball Theater is dedicated Golden Thread Productions explores Magic Theatre is the Bay Area’s orig- to developing experimental new plays Middle Eastern cultures and identi- inal home for visionary new theater and re-envisioning classics with an ties as expressed around the globe, dedicated to the cultivation of bold emphasis on language and images. presenting alternative perspectives new plays, playwrights and audienc- $26,930 by developing and producing aes- es, which reflect the rich history of 141 Taylor Street thetically varied and politically and the world in which we live. San Francisco, CA 94102 viscerally engaging theatrical work. $79,770 415.572.7834 $26,890 Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina www.cuttingball.com 499 Alabama Street, #450 Boulevard, Bldg. D San Francisco, CA 94110-2064 San Francisco, CA 94123 Encore Theatre Company offers 415.626.4061 415.441.8001 innovative stage presentations of new www.goldenthread.org www.magictheatre.org and rarely produced drama fostering social awareness. La Pocha Nostra, a multidisciplinary, New Conservatory Theatre Center, a $7,100 multimedia company created by per- performing arts complex and profes- 2612 25th Street formance artist Guillermo Gomez- sional theater arts school, presents San Francisco, CA 94110 Peña, explores the cultural borders the year-long LGBT & Allied Pride 415-336-7027 between languages, cultures, technol- Season, YouthAware Educational www.encoretheatreco.org ogy and art. Touring Program, New Play Develop- $23,900 ment and Emerging Artist Residen- EXIT Theatre produces experimental 2857 24th Street cies, and a Family Matinee Children’s plays, absurdist classics and perfor- San Francisco, CA 94110 Theatre series. mance art in four venues in the www.pochanostra.com $65,100 Tenderloin, as well as the annual 25 Van Ness Avenue, Lower Lobby Fringe Festival. The Lobster Theater Project produc- San Francisco, CA 94102 $48,100 es sketch-comedy shows, full-length 415.861.4914 156 Eddy Street plays, an annual film festival, month- www.nctcsf.org San Francisco, CA 94102 ly cabarets, short films and musical 415.931.1094 recordings. Phoenix Arts Association Theatre/ www.sffringe.org $18,620 Gallery encourages the development 2101 Folsom Street of new plays by providing perfor- foolsFURY Theater Company San Francisco, CA 94110 mance, workshop and rehearsal produces and presents new works 415.558.7721 space in its downtown venues at a and performance styles that include www.killingmylobster.com reasonable cost for theater compa- music, dance, circus, audience inter- nies with a wide range of work. action and three-dimensional visual Lorraine Hansberry Theatre/SEW $11,500 art. Productions presents plays by lead- 138 Carl Street $17,200 ing African American playwrights, as San Francisco, CA 94117 499 Alabama Street, #450 well as a play-reading series featuring 415.336.1020 San Francisco, CA 94110 new works. www.phoenixtheatresf.org 415.377.5277 $52,200 www.foolsfury.org 762 Fulton Street, Suite 204 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.345.3980 www.lhtsf.org

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San Francisco Mime Troupe, the Shadowlight Productions creates Theatre Rhinoceros develops and city’s oldest professional theater com- one-of-a-kind interdisciplinary works produces original works that examine pany, is recognized internationally for that blend ancient shadow theater the personal lives and social concerns creating political theater in parks and techniques, modern theater, cinemat- of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans- other outdoor locations. ic effects, live music and other media. gender communities. $47,700 $32,240 $27,710 855 Treat Avenue 22 Chattanooga Street 1 Sansome Street, #3500 San Francisco, CA 94110-2723 San Francisco, CA 94114 San Francisco, CA 94104 415.285.1717 415.648.4461 415.552.4100 www.sfmt.org www.shadowlight.org www.therhino.org

San Francisco Playhouse produces Theatre Bay Area is the largest re- We Players presents site-integrated an Off-Broadway-style mainstage gional theater service organization in performance events that transform season of six full productions annu- North America. GFTA supports the public spaces into realms of partici- ally, including world and West Coast advertising, marketing and opera- patory theater, bringing communities premieres, the Sandbox New Play tions of its TIX booth at Union Square. together and reclaiming local spaces Program and the Rising Stars $57,140 for public discourse and civic celebra- Program, a high school theater 1119 Market Street, 2nd Floor tion through art. attendance initiative. San Francisco, CA 94103 $5,000 $38,410 415.430.1140 1462 14th Avenue 588 Sutter Street, #318 www.theatrebayarea.org San Francisco, CA 94122 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.547.0189 415.677.9596 Theatre of Yugen is the only U.S. www.weplayers.org www.sfplayhouse.org company producing new works based on the Japanese Noh and Kyogen San Francisco Shakespeare Festival theater forms. presents “Free Shakespeare in the $30,000 Park” in the Presidio each summer, 2840 Mariposa Street as well as school tours, camps and San Francisco, CA 94110 educational programs throughout the 415.621.0507 Bay Area. www.theatreofyugen.org $64,480 P.O. Box 460937 San Francisco, CA 94146 415.558.0888 www.sfshakes.org

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Clockwise, from top: Museum of Craft and Design’s exhi- bition “Hands Off: New Dutch Design at the Confl uence of Technology & Craft.” Photo: Matthew Millman • Laura Ming Wong’s “Reclaim” from Asian American Women Artists Asso- ciation’s “A Place of Her Own” exhibition at SOMArts. Photo: Cynthia Tom • Visitors at California Historical Society’s ex- hibition “unbuilt San Francisco: The View from Futures Past.” Photo: Courtesy California Historical Society

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Artists Guild of San Francisco was Burning Man Project creates and Chinese Culture Foundation sparks founded to give artists control over sites temporary interactive, contem- intercultural discovery through art, the marketing of work through reg- porary art installations in collabora- education and engagement, present- ular free public outdoor exhibits in tion with San Francisco communities ing contemporary, innovative highly visible locations. and neighborhoods. Chinese and Chinese American $5,600 $33,170 exhibitions and performances, and 3801 Third Street #1098 660 Alabama Street producing educational Chinatown San Francisco, CA 94124 San Francisco, CA 94110 tours, lectures series and California 415.835.0610 415.626.1248 excursions. www.artistsguildsf.com www.burningman.org $63,150 750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor ArtSpan/Open Studios of San Fran- California College of the Arts, a San Francisco, CA 94108 cisco builds community by connect- leading arts education institution, 415.986.1822 ing the public to visual arts in San presents exhibitions, lectures and www.c-c-c.org Francisco through SF Open Studios, symposia that feature local, national and youth and adult education and and international artists, architects, Chinese Historical Society of art-centric events, creating a platform designers, writers, and multimedia America collects, preserves and for artists to thrive and fostering a Bay experts. exhibits art, artifacts and archives Area that values the arts. $58,460 reflecting the experiences of Chinese $39,000 1111 8th Street in America. 934 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94107 $54,610 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.703.9555 965 Clay Street 415.861.9838 www.cca.edu San Francisco, CA 94108 www.artspan.org 415.391.1188 California Historical Society, found- www.chsa.org Asian American Women Artists ed in 1871, inspires and empowers Association, dedicated to ensuring people to make the state’s richly Contemporary Jewish Museum the visibility, documentation and diverse past a meaningful part of their makes the diversity of the Jewish well-being of Asian American women contemporary lives. experience relevant for a 21st in the arts, presents programs, exhi- $37,550 century audience and offers them bitions, lectures and workshops that 678 Mission Street new perspectives on Jewish culture, challenge societal assumptions and San Francisco, CA 94105 history, art and ideas through in- promote dialogue across cultures and 415.357.1848 novative exhibitions and programs generations. www.californiahistoricalsociety.org that educate, challenge, inspire and $5,000 engage. 1890 Bryant Street, #302 is the only $104,810 San Francisco, CA 94110 museum west of the Mississippi 736 Mission Street 415.722.4296 dedicated to preserving and exhibit- San Francisco, CA 94103 www.aawaa.net ing cartoon art in all its forms. 415-655-7808 $47,850 www.thecjm.org 655 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94105 415.227.8666 www.cartoonart.org

Following page: “Ferry Building,” ink and watercolor on paper by Andrew Li, 2009, for Creativity Explored.

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Creativity Explored advances the Museo ItaloAmericano researches Muralists Association value and diversity of artistic expres- and displays artworks of all media by offers daily mural walks throughout sion, providing artists with devel- Italian and Italian American artists. the Mission District, gallery exhibi- opmental disabilities the means to $44,240 tions, classes and workshops, produc- create, exhibit and sell their art in the Fort Mason Center es the Urban Youth Art Festival, and organization’s studio and gallery and 2 Marina Boulevard, Bldg. C sponsors Mural Awareness Month. around the world. San Francisco, CA 94123 $39,600 $44,410 415.673.2200 2981 24th Street 3245 16th Street www.museoitaloamericano.org San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94103 415.285.2287 415.863.2108 Museum of Craft + Design presents www.precitaeyes.org www.creativityexplored.org exhibits and programs that actively explore the role of craft and design in Root Division, a multiuse space of , an internationally everyday life. studios, gallery, and classroom, serves renowned museum of science, art $30,940 the community in the production, and human perception, presents 2569 Third Street education, and presentation of exhibitions, performances, film San Francisco, CA 94107 contemporary visual art. programs, lectures and workshops. 415.773.0303 $25,850 $335,000 www.sfmcd.org P.O. Box 411605 Pier 17, Suite 100 San Francisco, CA 94141 San Francisco, CA 94111 Museum of Performance & Design 415.863.7668 415.563.7337 presents public exhibitions, edu- www.rootdivision.org www.exploratorium.edu cational programs, performances, lectures and screenings, and main- San Francisco Architectural Heritage Galería de la Raza presents the tains online resources, an oral history is dedicated to preserving the city’s contemporary work of Bay Area project and research facilities, all architectural and cultural identity; Latino/Chicano artists, musicians reflecting San Francisco’s performing GFTA funding supports tours of the and theater groups. arts history. Haas-Lilienthal House and Heritage $36,030 $37,800 Walks. 2857 24th Street 893B Folsom Street $33,500 San Francisco, CA 94110 San Francisco, CA 94107 2007 Franklin Street 415.826.8009 415.255.4800 San Francisco, CA 94109 www.galeriadelaraza.org www.sfpalm.org 415.441.3000 www.sfheritage.org Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgen- National Japanese American der Historical Society fosters the Historical Society is a multiarts orga- San Francisco Art Institute’s public recovery, preservation, presenta- nization that uses exhibition and per- programming, supported by GFTA, tion and understanding of lesbian, forming arts to present the diversity features exhibitions and presenta- bisexual, transgender and gay culture of the Japanese American experience. tions by emerging and internationally through exhibits, an oral history $41,810 recognized artists and scholars. project and public readings. 1684 Post Street $66,990 $48,970 San Francisco, CA 94115 800 Chestnut Street 657 Mission Street, #300 415.921.5007 San Francisco, CA 94133-2299 San Francisco, CA 94105 www.njahs.org 415.749.4549 415.777.5455 www.sfai.edu www.glbthistory.org

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San Francisco Camerawork presents San Francisco Museum of Modern Southern Exposure supports visual exhibitions, lectures and workshops Art is dedicated to making the art of artists through extensive, innovative on contemporary fine art photogra- our time a vital, meaningful part of programming, experimentation, col- phy. public life through its unparalleled laboration and education, providing $43,050 collections, exhilarating exhibitions a resource center and forum for Bay 1011 Market Street, 2nd Floor and engaging public programs. Area and national artists and youth San Francisco, CA 94103 $402,200 in their Mission District space and 415.512.2020 151 Third Street off-site in the public realm. www.sfcamerawork.org San Francisco, CA 94103 $45,520 415.357.4000 3030 20th Street San Francisco Museum and www.sfmoma.org San Francisco, CA 94110 Historical Society is dedicated to pre- 415.863.2141 serving, interpreting and presenting www.soex.org the city’s historical heritage through a broad spectrum of programs, exhibi- tions and special events. $34,760 P.O. Box 420470 San Francisco, CA 94142-0470 415.537.1105 Presente: A Tribute to the Mission Community, ©2015 Precita Eyes www.sfhistory.org Muralists Association, directed by Fred Alvarado and Max Marttila with the Precita Eyes Urban Youth Arts Program, 24th and Folsom Street. Photo: Dogpaw Carrillo

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Clockwise from top: Miss Major Griffi n-Gracy during the SF LGBT Pride Celebration’s 2014 parade. Photo: Arrian Jah- angiri • Filipino-American Development Foundation’s 2015 Parol Lantern Festival and Parade. Photo: Tony Sy • Aztec dancers at the Cesar Chavez Holiday Parade and Festival. Photo: Courtesy Cesar Chavez Holiday Parade and Festival

$1,647,770 Annual Celebrations and Parades

California Dragon Boat Association Chinatown Merchants Association Comedy Day, Inc., a free event held in is a two-day event in September is a two-day festival celebrated in August at Sharon Meadows in Golden featuring more than 100 dragon boat Chinatown every September, featur- Gate Park, features diverse local and teams from across the U.S., Canada, ing crafts, performances, exhibitions national comedians. Europe and Asia, as well as a cultural and traditional foods. $6,980 festival, the largest competitive drag- $20,270 1036 Pacheco Street on boat event in the United States. 667 Grant Avenue San Francisco, CA 94116-1318 $16,990 San Francisco, CA 94108 415.987.3663 268 Bush Street, #888 415.982.6306 www.comedyday.com San Francisco, CA 94104 [email protected] 415.956. 8152 Comite Mexicano Civico Patriotico www.sfdragonboat.com Chinese Chamber of Commerce produces the annual El Grito Cere- organizes the Chinese New Year mony, an outdoor event commemo- Carnaval is a two-day Mission Dis- Parade, an annual celebration in hon- rating Mexican Independence Day. trict festival of cultural and commu- or of the Lunar New Year, one of the $5,070 nity groups culminating in a parade, largest of such events in the world. P.O. Box 40001 considered the largest multicultural $73,770 San Francisco, CA 94140 outdoor parade/festival on the West 730 Sacramento Street 415.350.8344 Coast. San Francisco, CA 94108 [email protected] $80,890 415.982.3000 2781 24th Street www.chineseparade.com Dyke March is the largest annual San Francisco, CA 94110 lesbian event in the world, held on 415.641.7657 Cinco de Mayo/Mission Neighbor- the evening before the LGBT Pride www.brava.org hood Centers sponsors the outdoor Parade in June. GFTA supports the celebration with cultural and cultural event at Dolores Park that Castro Street Fair, one of the city’s community groups to mark Cinco de features women poets, comediennes, larger and longest-running street Mayo, featuring Ballet Folklorico/ singers and local all-female bands. fairs, celebrates cultural and sexual mariachi performances and local $6,570 diversity each October. artists performances in the Mission 3543 18th Street, #2 $14,470 District. San Francisco, CA 94110 2929 19th Street $19,460 415.252.9230 San Francisco, CA 94110 362 Capp Street thedykemarch.org 415.621.2665 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.castrostreetfair.org 415.206.7747 Filipino-American Development www.mncsf.org Foundation organizes an annual Cesar Chavez Holiday Parade and festival featuring the Parol, a lantern Festival, held annually to honor the Columbus Day Celebration, spon- shaped like a five-pointed star, that life and work of civil rights/labor sored by the city’s Italian American symbolizes hope and guidance. leader and co-founder of the United community, caps a month-long $6,640 Farm Workers of America, Cesar E. celebration with a parade, a pageant 1010 Mission Street Chavez, celebrates the rich history, depicting Columbus’ landing, and San Francisco, CA 94103 art and culture of the Mission District, the ceremonial blessing of the fishing 415.348.8042 and supports the economic vitality fleet. www.bayanihancc.org of the community. $35,390 $6,570 678 Green Street 2929 19th Street San Francisco, CA 94133 San Francisco, CA 94110 415.434.1492 415.621.2665 www.sfcolumbusday.org www.cesarchavezday.org

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Jerry Day is a civic and cultural event Sakura Matsuri, Inc. celebrates United Irish Societies of SF, Inc. that pays tribute to the legacy of Jerry Japanese arts and culture through sponsors the Saint Patrick’s Day Garcia, a San Francisco native son exhibits, performances, demonstra- Parade, one of the city’s oldest and and rock legend, held at the Jerry tions, martial arts, food and a street largest parades, featuring Bay Area Garcia Ampitheater in McLaren Park, fair, culminating in a grand parade. bands, drill teams and floats. celebrating his Excelsior roots. $34,450 $16,920 $6,640 1759 Sutter Street P.O. Box 16026 809 France Avenue San Francisco, CA 94115 San Francisco, CA 94116 San Francisco, CA 94112 415.563.2313 415.665.4595 www.jerryday.org www.nccbf.org www.uissf.org

Nihonmachi Street Fair, Inc., a cele- SF LGBT Pride Celebration Vietnamese Community Center of bration of the Asian/Pacific American Committee, Inc. celebrates the San Francisco marks the arrival of communities, emphasizes the non- full expression of LGBT culture by the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, also profit organizations that serve them producing the annual San Francisco known as Tet, with an annual event and features musical and cultural Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender held in the city’s Tenderloin District performances, exhibits, food, Asian Pride Parade and other Pride Week that also celebrates the Vietnamese artisans, Children’s World and non- events. and Southeast Asian communities. profit information tables. $73,160 $15,920 $13,960 1841 Market Street, 4th Floor 766 Geary Street 1581 Webster Street, Suite 240 San Francisco, CA 94103 San Francisco, CA 94109 San Francisco, CA 94115 415.864.0831 415.351.1038 415.771.9861 www.sfpride.org www.vietccsf.org www.nihonmachistreetfair.org SOMA Merchants’ and Individuals’ Russian Center of SF, Inc. presents Lifestyle Events’ Folsom Street Fair, the Russian Festival, a three-day an annual South of Market event, is event celebrating the diversity of the largest celebration of alternative Russian culture through performanc- lifestyles in the United States, fea- es, crafts, demonstrations, food and turing top live entertainment from delicacies. alternative bands, a growing artist’s $13,860 area, and more. 2450 Sutter Street $30,240 San Francisco, CA 94115 131 10th Street, Suite 302 415.921.7631 San Francisco, CA 94103 www.russiancentersf.com 415.777.3247 www.folsomstreetevents.org

42 Grants for the Arts 2015 / 2016 Annual Report Cultural Centers, Civic Events and Regranting Programs

Cultural Centers Regranting Programs $441,229 $145,000

Supports operations, programming GFTA makes grants to other, smaller and maintenance of the four city- granting programs to serve constitu- owned cultural centers: Bayview encies we may otherwise not reach. Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theater, African American Art and Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Culture Complex, South of Market Center Festival Grants Program Cultural Center and Mission Cultural awards funds to API artists for tech- Center for Latino Arts. nical and production assistance, in addition to an artist stipend. Civic Events $20,000 $45,670 Queer Cultural Center Creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Queer Community is a capacity- Observance is the largest observance building, commissioning and on the West Coast, a Northern Califor- presenting program that annually nia regional effort featuring a free- enables culturally diverse LGBTQ dom train, march and ceremonies at The traditional Memorial Day parade and formal ceremony is held at the Presidio artists to produce and promote art . National Cemetery. Photo: Eric Poelzl, projects that explore social justice $20,300 2004 issues. 330 Ellis Street, #407 $20,000 San Francisco, CA 94102 415.674.6000 Veterans Day Parade is a tradition- San Francisco Friends of www.norcalmlk.org al event to honor those who served Chamber Music Musical Grant in the Armed Forces of the United Program makes awards to support Memorial Day Ceremony is a tra- States and is presented by Veterans of outstanding projects of San Francisco ditional program presented by the Foreign Wars. Bay Area professional chamber music Veterans of Foreign Wars, Presidio $15,220 ensembles, presenters, and individu- Trust and the National Cemetery Ad- War Memorial Veterans Building als with chamber music projects. ministration, which includes a parade 401 Van Ness Avenue, Room 101 $30,000 and formal ceremony at the Presidio San Francisco, CA 94102 National Cemetery. 415.710.5293 Southern Exposure/Alternative $10,150 Exposure grants program supports War Memorial Veterans Building “locally grown, artist-centered proj- 401 Van Ness Avenue, Room 101 ects.” San Francisco, CA 94102 $25,000 415.710.5293 Theatre Bay Area CA$H Program makes awards to small theater and dance companies, as well as to indi- vidual artists. $50,000

Grants for the Arts 2015 / 2016 Annual Report 43 Arts and Tourism San Francisco Arts A Partnership with the San Francisco Monthly Convention and Visitors Bureau

rants for the Arts established the project of Grants for the Arts, G first Arts and Tourism Program A San Francisco Arts Monthly is an in the United States in 1989 with the outreach publication to San Francis- goal of promoting San Francisco as a co visitors. It is provided free to hotel cultural destination to travel industry guests and concierges and is distrib- professionals, including tour whole- uted in theater lobbies, Moscone salers, travel agents, convention Center, restaurants and cafes, book- planners and others. stores and other targeted locations in San Francisco. In 1991, the San Francisco Conven- tion and Visitors Bureau became the “Arts Monthly has been a huge first agency to incorporate an Arts success in building audiences,” and Tourism office as a crucial part of according to a study by Dance USA, its marketing to visitors and busi- commissioned by the Bay Area foun- ness travelers. Since then, the Arts dation community. “This publication, and Tourism program has worked started by Grants for the Arts as a tool to increase visitor attendance at arts for concierges, lists arts events for events by designing programs that each month. When editors arranged highlight all the facets of San Francis- to insert the publication in the New co’s thriving cultural community. York Times in the first Sunday of each month, artists started advertising in Arts and Tourism also works closely it, and the perception was that the with local arts and cultural organiza- artists were in the New York Times. tions, informing them how to best use The cost of producing it is relatively the services offered by the Conven- low. And it raised the visibility and tion and Visitors Bureau. One of the credibility of dance.” services offered has been a series of GFTA has been listing monthly San Francisco arts offerings in print for 26 free, educational PR seminars created years and virtually at SFArts.org for 15 especially for the arts community. years.

44 Grants for the Arts 2015 / 2016 Annual Report SF/Arts.org Other Programs

ow do artists and audiences take The Neighborhood Arts Voluntary Arts Contribution Fund Hadvantage of Web technology Collaborative is a joint project of Sometimes described as “the little and the Internet to promote the arts Grants for the Arts, the San Francisco grants that make a big difference,” the in San Francisco? This has been the Arts Commission, the Mayor’s Voluntary Arts Contribution topic of discussion by Grants for the Community Challenge Grant Fund was established in 1984. An Arts and its constituent groups for Program, the Mayor’s Office of innovative program that allows San a number of years. As part of GFTA’s Neighborhood Services, the Mayor’s Francisco property taxpayers and mandate, linking its activities to Office of Economic and Work Force others to add a tax-deductible attract visitors to San Francisco, GFTA Development, and the Arts &Tourism contribution to their biannual tax led the way in creating a searchable, Program of the San Francisco Travel payments, it makes small grants clutter-free database of San Francisco Association. to arts organizations for capital arts offerings on the Web with the improvements, facilities maintenance 2001 launch of SFArts.org. This online The program was developed to and equipment acquisition. calendar is a widespread, indispens- provide funding for collaborative arts able tool for anyone interested in the activities that take place in proximity For more information, visit our arts in San Francisco. to each other within a specific geo- Website at www.sfgfta.org. graphic boundary. This multiagency Organizations that receive GFTA sup- effort supports community arts activ- port are listed on the site. Each group ities within some of San Francisco’s is invited to create a reciprocal link to diverse neighborhoods to promote SFArts.org so visitors can go direct- the arts, businesses, schools, social ly to an art group’s Website and get service and other nonprofits located more details about program offerings. in close proximity, and to encourage Thousands of promotional cards that the development of mutually benefi- feature the Web addresses are distrib- cial relationships among community uted through the San Francisco Con- stakeholders. vention and Visitors Bureau, on-site at various locations in San Francisco, For fiscal year 2015-2016, the target as well as online to individuals and neighborhoods were: groups interested in visiting the city. • Central Market/Tenderloin SFArts.org bookmarks also are placed • Chinatown at the California State Fair, in theater • Lower 24th/Mission lobbies, bookshops and cafes, or • Castro stuffed into programs and newslet- • Fillmore ters. Radio and print ads, BART signs • Excelsior and more have promoted the site, which is now ranked No. 1 on most of the country’s top search engines.

Grants for the Arts 2015 / 2016 Annual Report 45 401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 321 San Francisco, CA 94102 sfgfta.org